MUST READ column for Met fans (and people that laugh at the Mets)

Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports with a great column on the young Met phenoms Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler. Definitely a must read for Met fans and for people that laugh at the Mets who should now think twice before doing so. Here are a few snippets to whet your appetite:

“From that day forth, everyone who witnessed the incident or heard about it understood a new Mets commandment: Thou shalt not trifle with Matt Harvey. And they gleaned something that they may not have understood at the time but certainly will going forward: If he can stand up against the big, bad leviathan and turn into the alpha dog just like that, so can the team that for the last five years has been nothing but joke after punch line after clown bait.”

And this:

“...he came against Freeman, the Braves' best hitter, with a changeup, then a fastball, then two more changeups, then a slider. And with the count full, he twirled in a curve ball, like he was marking his territory, that this mound was going to be his for a long, long time, and using his fourth-best pitch on a 3-2 count was kosher.

Freeman turned back to John Buck, the Mets' catcher.

"Are you serious?" he asked.

"He can throw whatever he wants to now, bro," Buck replied.

"That son of a bitch," Freeman said.

That son of a bitch followed with a 97-mph fastball that Freeman spoiled and a 96-mph fastball through which he swung.”

Read the whole thing. It’s worth it.